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Invitation to treat
The first question in this case was whether the display of the goods on the shelves was an offer or an invitation to treat. To distinguish ‘offer’ from an ‘invitation to treat’, both of these terms have to be clearly defined.
An offer is a sign of willingness by an ‘offeror’ to be legally bound by the acceptance and that intention to be bound of the ‘offeree’ is present. It is capable of being accepted, thereby contractual relations will exist. Whereas, invitation to treat may be defined as an expression inviting a person to whom it is made to make the proposal. It is an expression of willingness to negotiate where the person making an invitation to treat does not bound to any obligation as soon as it is accepted by the addressed party to accept. In another words, an invitation to treat has no legal consequences and cannot be accepted to constitute contract.
The example of invitation to treat which most prescribed this issue would be the display of good. Goods displayed on the shelf is just an invitation to treat, whereby the customer is an offeror, who make the offer to purchase, and the shopkeeper becomes the offeree, who can either accept or reject the offer. An offer to buy is made when the customer takes the goods of the shelf, but contract is only made at the cashier’s desk when the customers pays for the item. Similarly, there is a case that is appropriate for this explanation.
In Fisher v Bell , the defendant had displayed a flick knife with a clearly inscribed price tag in his shop window. Under the restriction offensive weapons act 1959 (UK) that it is an offensive order and should be found guilty, but the court had held that a display of goods in the shop window was merely an invitation to trea...

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...s contract is formed and they don’t have chance to cancel or even substitute them with other goods.
From this case, it can be clearly understood that there is no contract even from the very first time. Therefore, the act of Sulaiman putting the goods back on the shelves cannot be considered as breaching the contract. Sulaiman has the rights to put back the goods on the shelves and the supermarket supervisor cannot sue him for doing so because there is no contract between them two.
In conclusion, the display of goods is merely invitation to treat. Sulaiman as the customer is expected to make an offer, however, he didn’t do so. As the result, there is no contract between the plaintiff, the supermarket supervisor and the defendant, Sulaiman. The defendant has the right to put the goods back on the shelves and the supervisor of supermarket cannot sue him for doing so.

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